Jan Vlk
Autonomous Systems Researcher
PhD Cybernetics & Robotics student @ CTU Prague
Building perception systems for autonomous agents
News & Updates
Started PhD at CTU VRAS Group — Joined the Vision for Robotics and Autonomous Systems group, focusing on physics-guided learning for terrain-aware robot navigation.
2nd Place at Robotour 2025 — Our team placed 2nd in the international outdoor robot competition with an autonomous beer-delivery robot.
Master's thesis published — Unsupervised Approaches for 4D Panoptic Segmentation in LiDAR Driving Scenes. Introduces FlowSeg4D, achieving LSTQ 46.9 on SemanticKITTI without supervision. Read more →
Dean's Award for Bachelor's thesis — Received the Dean's Award for Autonomous Road Crossing with a Mobile Robot at CTU FEE. Read more →
Valeo Scholarship awarded — Received the Valeo scholarship for MSc studies in Cybernetics and Robotics (2023–2025).
2nd Place at Porsche Engineering Student Contest — Developed software for an autonomous 1:10 scale vehicle, competing against teams from European universities.
Robotic Systems
Control algorithms for autonomous robots navigation based on predicted terrain properties
Autonomous Driving
Real-world LiDAR processing for object detection and tracking in all driving environments
Computer Vision
Multi-sensor fusion combining LiDAR, camera, and depth for robust perception
My Journey
BSc Cybernetics & Robotics
2020 - 2023Czech Technical University
Thesis: Autonomous Road Crossing with a Mobile Robot
Porsche Engineering Student Contest
20222nd Place
Developed software for autonomous car model
MSc Cybernetics & Robotics
2023 - 2025Czech Technical University
Thesis: Unsupervised Approaches for 4D Panoptic Segmentation in LiDAR Driving Scenes
Robotour
20252nd Place
Autonomous robotic beer delivery
Researcher and PhD student
2025 - PresentCzech Technical University
Control of autonomous agents based on terrain properties
Technical Expertise
Core Languages
Computer Vision
Tools & Platforms
Current Research
Dissertation
Physics-Guided Learning for Machine Control
Control of autonomous robots based on the terrain properties obtained through perception and physics-informed neural networks
Research Project
Outdoor Autonomous Robotics
Topics tied to autonomous operation in outdoor environments, such as semantic segmentation, navigation, localization, ...
Open Source
Online Monitoring
Software for online monitoring of deployed robots
And Much More
Almost all I develop is available under open source license
Personal Interests
Sports
Competitive dancer • Amateur runner, climber, tennis player, ...
Photography
Amateur photographer & videographer
Travel
I love to travel • Visited 15+ countries both for work and pleasure
Open to Collaboration
I'm always interested in collaborating on autonomous systems research, whether it's joint publications, open source projects, or industry applications.